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"A life like this ... was possible"
I was honored to prepare this translation from Marie-Hélène Lafon's "Les Pays," a beautifully observed portrait of a young woman's...

beldonstevens
Jul 5, 20221 min read
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Long-term email address
For anyone needing to reach me about matters academic (e.g., letters of recommendation, thoughts about scholarship, etc.), my longterm...

beldonstevens
May 13, 20221 min read
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Roman 'panis quadratus' (B.Y.O.V.V.)
Inspired by conversation a couple weeks back with fellow h̶a̶r̶d̶-̶c̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶r̶d̶s̶ scholars of classical receptions in science...

beldonstevens
Mar 2, 20221 min read
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"The Remake Ruined My Childhood": New Ancient Histories of Cinema
This past semester I had the great pleasure of teaching, for the first time, a course I'd long imagined on "Ancient Worlds in Film & TV."...

beldonstevens
May 5, 20203 min read
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"Ghost cabins, abandoned": 'traveling' via poems while sheltering in place
A week into social distancing, March 16 2020, I wrote: "A thousand years ago, it was last Monday." Those first seven days felt so...

beldonstevens
Apr 27, 20206 min read
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From Spring to Fall (& a course on "Afterlives of Antiquity")
Perhaps I'm not alone in feeling it strange that registration for the fall semester has started? For me, at least, the ongoing crisis has...

beldonstevens
Apr 13, 20202 min read
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On Passover Seders & Classical Satyrs; or, Retelling Stories in Hard Times
The Jewish holiday of Passover (in Hebrew פסח, pesach) starts this week: at sundown on Wednesday 8 April in the 'Gregorian' calendar, or...

beldonstevens
Apr 4, 20204 min read
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Basin, Riverbank, & Aubade: on Moving Poetic Images while Sheltering in Place
In a previous post, I wrote about how I've been thinking through the present situation with help from students in my course on "Ancient...

beldonstevens
Mar 29, 20209 min read
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Hyper-Modern Ways of Watching Ancient Movies Together?
After a two week hiatus--the first week as scheduled for Spring Break, the second needed as my University, like most others, reconfigured...

beldonstevens
Mar 26, 20206 min read
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"Frankenstein and Its Classics" reviewed
Excited to see "Frankenstein and Its Classics" reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review! Dr. Daniel Cook writes that the "wide-ranging yet...

beldonstevens
Dec 20, 20191 min read
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